Alan Shoemaker has been learning how to work with ayahuasca and San Pedro for over 20 years through apprenticing with shamans in Ecuador and Peru, and currently hosts the annual International Amazonian Shamanism conference in Iquitos. Here he describes his curandero initiation, and in it recalls an interesting out of body journey to retrieve specific information.

Jungle Svonni has been wrongly accused of a crime. He has been acquitted twice. But still the threats from the Swedish State continue. He is currently awaiting a third trial. This is a story about the struggle for recognition...And for the right of a people to express their own culture as they see fit; to tell their own story.

A new paper titled, "Safety and Efficacy of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-Assisted Psychotherapy for Anxiety Associated With Life-threatening Diseases," published yesterday (March 4, 2014), represents what is being called, "the first controlled trial of LSD in more than 40 years."  

Reminiscence ... an image derived from a journey taken at a time long before Now ... a window pane of the 4 way.

In this recent presentation at ERIE's Cross-Cultural Entheogenic Practices, anthropologist, author, adventurer, and plant medicine expert, Steven Beyer, talks about the transmission of Ayahuasca from the Upper Amazon to North America and Western society. 

These diagrams were compiled by ۩, a longtime member of the DMT-Nexus. If you are inexperienced with ayahuasca or DMT, these diagrams present some very good information about preparing for the experience, as well as the experience itself.

Dr. Rick Strassman is widely known for his pioneering study on the effects of DMT on human volunteers, chronicled in his book, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, that played a key role in jump starting psychedelic drug research after a 20 year hiatus. In addition to later co-authoring Inner Paths to Outer Space in 2008, he has finished a new book, DMT and the Soul of Prophecy, and released this sneak peak of the first chapter.

In this article, James Oroc gives a fascinating overview of Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin's life and contributions to the psychedelic revolution. From the popularization of MDMA, which became synonymous with electronic dance music and fuels the ever-growing rave culture of today, to an unnoted secretive hand in making sure that the LSD culture persisted through the sixties and beyond.

In central West Africa grows a special plant called Tabernanthe iboga. Its root bark has a fundamental role in rites of passage and healing ceremonies...Gabon banned the export of Iboga, but instead of ending the problem it gave birth to an illicit iboga trading market...

Interview with Dr. Dennis McKenna from the documentary Aya: Awakenings, in which he talks about the rise of ayahuasca shamanism in the West, planetary consciousness and a return to the awareness of the 'vegetal internet': the web-of-life itself as part of our evolution.